Gary O’Donovan

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Gary O’Donovan is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Complementary and alternative medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary O’Donovan has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Physiology, 28 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 16 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine. Recurrent topics in Gary O’Donovan's work include Physical Activity and Health (23 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (19 papers) and Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (16 papers). Gary O’Donovan is often cited by papers focused on Physical Activity and Health (23 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (19 papers) and Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (16 papers). Gary O’Donovan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Colombia and Australia. Gary O’Donovan's co-authors include Mark Hamer, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Thomas Yates, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, I‐Min Lee, Laura J. Gray, James A. King, Charlotte Jelleyman and E. Kearney and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Gary O’Donovan

51 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The effects of high‐intensity interval training on glucose regulation and insulin resistance: a meta‐analysis

2015 409 citations Thomas Yates, Gary O’Donovan et al. profile →
Association of “Weekend Warrior” and Other Leisure Time Physical Activity Patterns With Risks for All-Cause, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer Mortality

2017 306 citations Gary O’Donovan, I‐Min Lee et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary O’Donovan

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Lifestyle risk factors and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Mexico City prospective study: Assessing the influence of reverse causation 2024 ·Journal of Affective Disorders ·Gérson Ferrari, Marcelo de Maio Nascimento, Fanny Petermann‐Rocha, Leandro F. M. Rezende, Gary O’Donovan, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia, Carlos Cristi‐Montero, Adilson Marques	2
2	Associations of diabesity with all‐cause and cardiovascular disease mortality: Findings from the Mexico City Prospective Study 2024 ·Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism ·Fanny Petermann‐Rocha, (unknown), Gabriela Nazar, (unknown), (unknown), Salil V. Deo, Gérson Ferrari, Gary O’Donovan	2
3	Associations of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: the Mexico City Prospective Study 2024 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Gary O’Donovan, Fanny Petermann‐Rocha, Gérson Ferrari, I‐Min Lee, Mark Hamer, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Olga L. Sarmiento, Agustín Ibáñez, Patricio López‐Jaramillo	27
4	Tombstone cost and longevity: The San Pedro Cemetery Museum in Medellín in Colombia 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·Gary O’Donovan, (unknown), Santiago Flórez, (unknown), (unknown)	0
5	Associations of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern with mild dementia: findings from the Mexico City Prospective Study 2024 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Gary O’Donovan, Fanny Petermann‐Rocha, Gérson Ferrari, Catalina Medina, Carolina Ochoa‐Rosales, Olga L. Sarmiento, Agustín Ibáñez	6
6	Effects of an urban cable car intervention on physical activity: the TrUST natural experiment in Bogotá, Colombia 2023 ·The Lancet Global Health ·(unknown), Olga L. Sarmiento, Gary O’Donovan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Julián Arellana, Luis A. Guzmán, Goro Yamada, Daniel A. Rodrı́guez, Ana V. Diez–Roux	10
7	High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Mortality 2018 ·Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Mark Hamer, Gary O’Donovan, Emmanuel Stamatakis	102
8	Associations between alcohol and obesity in more than 100 000 adults in England and Scotland 2018 ·British Journal Of Nutrition ·Gary O’Donovan, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Mark Hamer	22
9	The Importance of Vigorous-Intensity Leisure-Time Physical Activity in Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Risk in the Obese 2018 ·Mayo Clinic Proceedings ·Gary O’Donovan, Emmanuel Stamatakis, David J. Stensel, Mark Hamer	17
10	Sarcopenic obesity, weight loss, and mortality: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2017 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Mark Hamer, Gary O’Donovan	63
11	Physical Inactivity and the Economic and Health Burdens Due to Cardiovascular Disease: Exercise as Medicine 2017 ·Advances in experimental medicine and biology ·Mark Hamer, Gary O’Donovan, Marie Murphy	14
12	The association between leisure-time physical activity and lung function in older adults: The English longitudinal study of ageing 2017 ·Preventive Medicine ·Gary O’Donovan, Mark Hamer	22
13	Association Between Lifestyle Factors and the Incidence of Multimorbidity in an Older English Population 2016 ·The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Nafeesa Dhalwani, Francesco Zaccardi, Gary O’Donovan, Patrice Carter, Mark Hamer, Thomas Yates, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti	94
14	Cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: A 23-year cohort study and a meta-analysis of prospective studies 2015 ·Atherosclerosis ·Francesco Zaccardi, Gary O’Donovan, David R. Webb, Thomas Yates, Sudhir Kurl, Kamlesh Khunti, Melanie J. Davies, Jari A. Laukkanen	67
15	The association between neighbourhood greenspace and type 2 diabetes in a large cross-sectional study 2014 ·BMJ Open ·Danielle H. Bodicoat, Gary O’Donovan, Alice M. Dalton, Laura J. Gray, Thomas Yates, Charlotte L. Edwardson, (unknown), David R. Webb, Kamlesh Khunti, Melanie J. Davies, Andy Jones	98
16	Objectively measured physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk factors in the Health Survey for England 2013 ·Preventive Medicine ·Gary O’Donovan, Melvyn Hillsdon, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Mark Hamer	34
17	Fatness, fitness, and cardiometabolic risk factors in middle-aged white men 2011 ·Metabolism ·Gary O’Donovan, E. Kearney, Roy Sherwood, Melvyn Hillsdon	15
18	Cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic risk factors in obesity 2010 ·Current Opinion in Lipidology ·Mark Hamer, Gary O’Donovan	26
19	LDL Particle Size in Habitual Exercisers, Lean Sedentary Men and Abdominally Obese Sedentary Men 2007 ·International Journal of Sports Medicine ·Gary O’Donovan, Jane McEneny, E. Kearney, A Owen, Alan Nevill, Kate Woolf‐May, Stephen R. Bird	8
20	Cardiovascular disease risk factors in habitual exercisers, lean sedentary men and abdominally obese sedentary men 2005 ·International Journal of Obesity ·Gary O’Donovan, A Owen, E. Kearney, D. W. Jones, Alan Nevill, Kate Woolf‐May, Stephen R. Bird	45

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